May 21, 2026 - Reading time: 2 minutes
I'm coining my own term, Familial Parasitism. The lesser spoken quality of human existence.
Whether it be psychological, financial, or cultural, it makes it no difference.
How do I define Familial Parasitism?
The overreaching concept of culture is the first thing that comes to mind. The blindness to accept the worst aspects of procreation, to create worker slaves to benefit the progenitors.
Poverty is in the eye of the beholder. This is about self-responsibility on parenthood, and the choices one makes in life. Putting the burden on the youngest and increasing their burden through pressure from single mothers/fathers is a recurring theme. For we should not be a society that raises children to raise us back in some kind of freakish reverse parenting. That is basically what these situations tend to display. Expectation of being taken care of in the future, and simply allowing your own children to exist to fulfill that expectation.
Parents and their skewed expectations. It seemed like more-or-less an issue in the family structure where the mothers would pressure the children in their apparently already destitute situation, to go and make some cash. Other situations include mostly the mother finding a new husband where the new step-father treats the current children like nuisance strangers that come to take their food and lodging.
At basis, risking the life of a child had somehow equated to 'being worth it' if they join a dangerous gang or other to acquire wealth or status.
Other Cases
Homeless shelters are home to many women/men who can no longer milk the teet of the government infrastructure. Once they have carelessly 'raised' or actually farmed their children and then having being abandoned by their investments, to then only; wonder why they themselves are suddenly neglected, forgotten, and starving.
When your children play the real life children's book story of "Are you My Mother", except with a perverse twist of "Are you my father". You can imagine the embarrassment the children feel as they mature.
"Psychological Poverty equates to true poverty"